We're
all hardworking people
12 February 2006 - Orange County Register
Hector
Preciado of the Greenlining Institute opposes
a border fence and deportation of illegal immigrant felons.
He says, "We're not terrorists, just hardworking people trying to
make a living." So in his view it doesn't matter if one breaks the
law, as long as you're a hardworking person trying to make a living.
I
can guarantee that if a hardworking person who worked 80-hour weeks
at two minimum wage jobs trying to make a living refused to pay
their Social Security and Medicare taxes, the government would not
let them skate on breaking that law. Thanks to the situation with
the Piecemakers, it's been shown that government will come down
on hardworking people trying to make a living who only skirt some
of California’s myriad business regulations - much less commit a
felony.
Given
this simple reality, there's no reason why any level of government
should let hardworking Mexican citizens trying to make a living
continue to break the law by entering this country illegally - and
that’s especially true for the felons among them, who, lest we forget,
are the only focus of the new Costa Mesa policy.
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